The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Glasgow region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 75 - 56
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.209% - 0.437%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.769% - 3.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £329 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.46% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
260 138 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.11% 17.58% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 66 60
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £201 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Inversion of Control
Scotland

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Glasgow Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Inversion of Control across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Inversion of Control also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Inversion of Control.

1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) C#
3 13 (86.67%) SQL Server
3 13 (86.67%) ASP.NET
4 10 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
5 9 (60.00%) InfoPath
6 7 (46.67%) VB.NET
7 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
8 4 (26.67%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (26.67%) NHS
8 4 (26.67%) SQL
9 3 (20.00%) XML
9 3 (20.00%) Windows
9 3 (20.00%) NHibernate
9 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
10 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (13.33%) Degree
10 2 (13.33%) WPF
10 2 (13.33%) MVVM
10 2 (13.33%) CSS
10 2 (13.33%) Oracle
10 2 (13.33%) HTML
10 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
10 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
11 1 (6.667%) Front Office
11 1 (6.667%) Finance
11 1 (6.667%) Hibernate

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Inversion of Control also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (86.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (20.00%) XML
3 3 (20.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) WPF
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
5 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.667%) WinForms
5 1 (6.667%) WCF
5 1 (6.667%) HTML5
5 1 (6.667%) Sencha Touch
5 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (26.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (6.667%) IIS
3 1 (6.667%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 9 (60.00%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (86.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (6.667%) Front Office
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) WPF Developer
5 1 (6.667%) UI Programmer
5 1 (6.667%) UI Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.667%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) MVVM
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.667%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) VB.NET
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.667%) Perl
5 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Citrix
2 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
2 1 (6.667%) Sybase
2 1 (6.667%) Sencha